Title :
Dissipative Soliton (12 nJ) From an All-Fiber Passively Mode-Locked Laser With Large Normal Dispersion
Author :
Ouyang, Chunmei ; Shum, Perry Ping ; Wu, Kan ; Wong, Jia Haur ; Wu, Xuan ; Lam, Huy Quoc ; Aditya, Sheel
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate an all-fiber erbium-doped fiber laser operating in the large normal dispersion regime. The laser is mode-locked by use of nonlinear polarization rotation and generates dissipative solitons (DSs) with large positive chirp and steep spectral edges. Within the cavity, there is no additional spectral filter used for self-starting and stabilizing the mode-locking of the laser. The output DSs have a duration of 30.5 ps with pulse energies up to 12 nJ, which can be compressed externally to 240 fs.
Keywords :
erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; all-fiber erbium-doped fiber laser; all-fiber passively mode-locked laser; dissipative soliton; large normal dispersion; large positive chirp; laser cavity; laser stabilizing; nonlinear polarization rotation; steep spectral edges; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Fiber lasers; mode-locked lasers; pulse compression; pulse shaping;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2169659
